Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-23
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

DUNES lC.
The general manager Of the Wisconsin
Central lines has issued this notice 20 all en-
Ployes; 7" Monday, Dec. 70 the day which
VIII he observed for Christmas this year. will
be respected as a general holiday on the EN-
TIRE system Of the Wisconsin Central asSoci-
aled lines. Freight houses will be closed and
freight trains will not run, excepting where
1t is necessity for the purpose Of taking care
of periShable freight and live stock Emf
ployes who can be relieved from their duties,
ana wish to take trip over the road, viii
be furnished with free tickets for themselves
and members OF their families by making Rp.
pllcation to the head of department under
whom they are employed. wish you all a
merry Christmas
A commission was appointed in the New
York Legislature in 1856 to report on the
most humane method Of capital punishment.
The commission consisted of Elbridge 7.
Gerry Of New York, Matthew Hale, of AL
bany, and DR.. Southwick, of Buffalo. The
commission is now understood to be wholly
in favor of some electrical mode of executing
death sentences. DR.. Southwick has been
making various experiments during the sum
her upon dogs in the pound at Buffalo, and
claims to have demonstrated that it is SO
painless that hardly the tension of a
muscle follows its application.
Throughout south Florida a lynching
epidemic seems to prevail George Green,
colored man, was n notorious cattle thief
for years, but escaped the law. Everyone
knew he was guilty, but they could not do
anything. Tho injured, outraged and
robbed citizens gave him a trial and shift
by the short route. He was in custody at
the time he was led forth to lynching. Green
was about So years old A warning to cattle
thieves was pinned to the tree.
1t is understood that the Grand Trunk Rail
way Company is negotiating with the Beaver
steamship line to take its Portland trade.
The officials at the United States sub-treas.
ury in New York City have discovered large
numbers of 81 silver certificates altered to
tiveS.
Tho late Mime. Boucicaalt's property in
Paris is estimated to DO worth $4,000, 900.
She left $4,000, 900 for the founding of hos
pital
The generating of gas for extinguishing
the mine fire at Calumet & Hecla has been
stopped. 1t is believed by mine officials that
the fire is out.
The New York Herald states that Tony
Hart the comedian shows signs Of paresis, the
species of brain decay which killed John
Mccullough, and is killing BARLEY Camp
bell.
James Buncc q farmer near Erie, Pa,
visited his sweetheart, Miss Lydia Patterson,
and found another young man in her COM
pany. Bunce stepped outside of the house to
the porch, where he blew his brains out
Miss Patterson then made q desperate effort
TO commit suicide with a carving knife, and
was seriously injured before she could DO
disarmed.
The steel cruiser Chicago has been SUBJ
iected to the contract trial for horse power
on Long Island sound, and it appears that
her performance exceeded all expectations
The engines were kept at full speed for six
consecutive hours without accident of any
kind. The mean revolutions per minute
were CD 1-2, and the horse power exceeded
that called for in the contract. From all tho
information obtainable, it is certain that in
the Chicago the navy has a vessel fully up to
modern requirements Tho speed obtained
was slightly in excess of Is 1-2 knots an hour.
The boilers furnished all the steam required
without the use of forced draught.
Ex-Gov. Roberts of Texas and the widow
of Col. John Borden have been married.
The groom is rs years old, and is one of the
historic characters of Texas.
A case that is exciting much comment is
the apparent death of Mrs. McVance, wife of
a prominent Northern Pacific official at
Grand Forks Oak. She is lying dead, or in
trance so much resembling death that it is
impossible to detect the difference At two
different times in her lifetime she has been
supposed to be dead, and giving her friends
a joyous surprise by returning to conscious
ness. Some symptoms of death are still
lacking. There is no rigor mortis, When
feeling that she was losing consciousness,
Mrs McVane earnestly requested an at
tendant to be sure she was dead before the
burial took place, Her last words were:
my God, don't bury me alive"
The United States government has favora-
bly, entertained the proposition to establish
postal service between the United States
and the Dominion.
A general snow Storm the heaviest in the
memory of the Oldest settlers, is reported
throughout western Texas.
E. Berry Wall. 'king of the dudes" has
been secretly married in Baltimore to Miss
Salon Milbourne, the pretty daughter of
Maj Milbournc of the war department.
The case of William Showers of Labanon,
Pa, who has been on trial for several days,
charged with having murdered his two
grandchildren, was left at tho mercy of
jury. A most dramatic scene occurred dur
ing the closing hours of the trial when
Stephen Showers, a son Of the accused, took
the stand and testified in reference to the
letters which his father had written from
the prison, asking him to swear falsely, so as
to clear the old man. The son said that he
could not take false oath, even to save his
own fathers neck.
A $4,000 robbery Of valuable silks has been
unearthed in the United States appraiser
stores in New York duplicating several of the
clerks in the department of customs in a
clever forgery. 1t seems that numerous
petty thefts have been going on in the
department for some time, and special agents
had been on tho scent. The silks, the theft
of which was discovered, were imported by n
large house from Paris. When a member
of tho firm inquired to-day if tho goods had
been examined, it was found that the certifi-
Gates of the appraisers of tho goods had been
forged, and the goods carted away on the
strength of the forged certificates One
clerk has been arrested, AMI others who are
implicated will be brought in later, There
was considerable excitement among the
attaches of the Office over the exposure.
A two-year-old boy of Williamsburg, N.
Y, met with a singular accident while at
play on pile of sand. He suddenly cried
out in pain, and pointing to his nostril,
showed a sea-shel jammed into it. The
efforts of his companions to extract the shell
drove it farther up into the nostril. 1t took
aphysician half an hour to extract the she'll.
The rcud which has existed so long between
the Adams and Caswell factions at Winches.
ter, KY, has broken out again. The trouble,
which originated 10 years ago, has cost to
date two score of lives. The leaders of the
factions met on Bush creek, and at the close
of services in church n quarrel was followed
by fight, in which Granville Adams was
Killed by one OF the Caswell gang Since
then, Frank Haslon, James Sansford, James
Townsend, Tom Jackson and two others
names unknown, have been killed, nearly G
dozen persons having been wounded Houses
have been burned and other depredations
committed. Sheriff White says the feud will
not be ended this generation.
The business failures occurring Throughout
the country during seven days last reported
by r. G. Dunn &c Co., and E. Russell g. Co.
of the merchan.ils agency, number for tn,
United Suites Pa and for Canada "a, or
total of 29S, as against total of 254 las
week and PA the week previous to tho last